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The President’s Thoughts: Newsletter of The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

April 7, 2017  ·  By HM&M

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OAK LAWN PATCH

Former colleagues, scouts and youth baseball league players recount the missed cues of the Boy Scouts’ most prolific serial pedophile.

“I found him odd, just the way he presented himself,” Olsen said. “Just hearing the name gives me chills. Even talking about it right now I get a little angry.”

“You trust your pastors, priests, Boy Scout leaders, teachers, park district executives, on the assumption that they had the children’s best interests at heart,” Christopher Hurley, the plaintiffs’ Chicago attorney said. “What these institutions have known all along, especially the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts, is that pedophiles use these institutions as a way to get access to children.

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